SEO'ing URLs

I am considering moving our Amazon affiliate stores to another folder on our site.

For example...

Home Theater Shack : Electronics Retailer Store: Online Shopping for Home Theater, Consumer Audio and Video Electronics: Home Theater HDMI Receivers: is currently in our public_html folder. I am considering moving it to the /hometheaterstores/ folder... http://www.hometheatershack.com/home...ater-receivers

There are a couple of thoughts on this. We are trying to SEO for the "home theater stores" phrase. Of course we will be doing a LOT of other things as well, but this is one thing I am not totally sure about.

Another benefit, aside from SEO, is that it will help me keep my stores more organized for FTP uploading. We have fifty-eleven folders in public-html and it is aggravating have to keep up with everything.

I suppose I would need to create a permanent 301 redirect for the old URsL to the new URsL.

Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations concerning this potential move?

Thanks!

IMO, your title is what's killing your long tail on 'home theater stores', not the URL.

If it makes sense to move, keep in mind you'll be losing all your old back links.
While you can 301, you will have to do this 1 by 1, as you can't set a generic 'move all in folder to this new place' type rule, as its in root and will end up moving everything (which is not what you want).

Yeah... the titles are one thing we plan to work on for all of our store sites. Those will all be updated.

As far as backlinks... we really have none to speak of... what few we do have are PR0 for the most part. This is another area we plan to work on.

Can you (or anyone) tell me what the correct htaccess 301 code would be for the above links? For some reason I seem to always fail at trying to get these to work.

Thanks!